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Sandalwood \San"dal*wood\, n. [F. sandal, santal, fr. Ar. [,c]andal, or Gr. sa`ntalon; both ultimately fr. Skr. candana. Cf. Sanders.] (Bot.)

  1. The highly perfumed yellowish heartwood of an East Indian and Polynesian tree ( Santalum album), and of several other trees of the same genus, as the Hawaiian Santalum Freycinetianum and S. pyrularium, the Australian S. latifolium, etc. The name is extended to several other kinds of fragrant wood.

  2. Any tree of the genus Santalum, or a tree which yields sandalwood.

  3. The red wood of a kind of buckthorn, used in Russia for dyeing leather ( Rhamnus Dahuricus).

    False sandalwood, the fragrant wood of several trees not of the genus Santalum, as Ximenia Americana, Myoporum tenuifolium of Tahiti.

    Red sandalwood, a heavy, dark red dyewood, being the heartwood of two leguminous trees of India ( Pterocarpus santalinus, and Adenanthera pavonina); -- called also red sanderswood, sanders or saunders, and rubywood.

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saunders

n. sandalwood

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Saunders -- U.S. County in Nebraska
Population (2000): 19830
Housing Units (2000): 8266
Land area (2000): 753.895158 sq. miles (1952.579413 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 4.921790 sq. miles (12.747377 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 758.816948 sq. miles (1965.326790 sq. km)
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 41.218350 N, 96.606171 W
Headwords:
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Saunders, NE
Saunders County
Saunders County, NE
Wikipedia
Saunders

Saunders is a surname of English and Scottish patronymic origin derived from Sander, a mediaeval form of Alexander.

People with the surname Saunders include:

  • Ab Saunders (1851–1883), American cowboy and gunman
  • Adam Saunders (born 1986), Australian actor
  • Al Saunders (born 1947), American football coach
  • Alan Saunders (police officer) (1886–1964), Inspector-General of Police in Palestine, 1937–1943
  • Alan Saunders (cricketer) (1892–1957), English cricketer
  • Alan Saunders (broadcaster) (1954–2012), broadcaster for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
  • Albert Charles Saunders (1874–1943), Canadian politician
  • Alfred Saunders (1820–1905), New Zealand politician
  • Alfred Thomas Saunders (1854–1940), generally known as A. T. Saunders, South Australian historian
  • Alison Saunders (born 1961), British barrister and Director of Public Prosecutions
  • Allen Saunders (1899–1986), American cartoonist
  • Alvin Saunders (1817–1899), American politician
  • Albert Charles Saunders (1874–1943), Canadian politician
  • Amy Saunders, British performer also known as Miss Behave
  • Andrew Saunders (1931–2009), British expert in military fortifications
  • Andy Saunders, English author
  • Angela Saunders (born 1977), English model and actress
  • Arthur Frederick Saunders (1879–1947), British soldier
  • Ben Saunders (disambiguation)
  • Bradley Saunders English boxer
  • Charles Saunders (disambiguation):
    • Charles Saunders (Royal Navy officer) (1713–1775), British admiral
    • Charles Saunders (administrator) (died 1931), British administrator
    • Charles Saunders (tennis), real tennis world champion, 1890–1895
    • Charles Saunders (director) (1904–1997), English film director and screenwriter
    • Charles Saunders (rower) (1902–1994), New Zealand rower
    • Charles E. Saunders (1867–1937), Canadian agronomist
    • Charles H. Saunders (1821–1901), City Councilor, Alderman and Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts
    • Charles R. Saunders (born 1946), Canadian fantasy author
    • Charles Saunders (bishop) (1884–1973), Bishop of Lucknow, 1928–1938
  • Cicely Saunders, British physician
  • Clarence Saunders (grocer), American retailer
  • Clarence Saunders (athlete), Bermudian high jumper
  • Dale Saunders (disambiguation):
    • Dale Saunders (singer) Saint Kitts and Nevis-born London-based soca and fusion music singer
    • Dale Saunders (soccer), Trinidad and Tobago football player
    • E. Dale Saunders, American scholar
  • Dave Saunders, American volleyball player
  • David Saunders (American football), American football receiver
  • Dean Saunders, Welsh footballer
  • Debra Saunders, American journalist
  • Dero A. Saunders, American journalist
  • Doug Saunders, Canadian journalist
  • Drew P. Saunders, American politician
  • Edith Rebecca Saunders, British biologist
  • Edward Saunders (disambiguation):
    • Edward W. Saunders (1860–1921), Virginian politician
    • Edward Saunders (judge) (died 1576), British judge
    • Edward Saunders (entomologist) (1848–1910), British entomologist
    • Edward Saunders (MP) for Coventry (UK Parliament constituency)
  • Ernest Saunders, British businessman
  • Flip Saunders (1955–2015), American basketball coach
  • Frederick Richard Saunders, Ceylonese colonial administrator
  • George Saunders, American short story writer
  • Gloria Saunders, American actress
  • Helen Saunders, British artist
  • Harold H. Saunders, American diplomat
  • Howard Saunders, British ornithologist
  • Hugh Saunders, South African Royal Air Force commander
  • Irene Saunders, American dictionary compiler
  • J. J. Saunders, British historian
  • Jack Saunders (disambiguation)
  • Jake Saunders, British banker in Hong Kong
  • Jason Saunders, New Zealand sailor
  • Jay Saunders, Big band lead trumpeter, collegiate jazz studies educator
  • Jennifer Saunders (born 1958), British comedian and actress
  • Joe Saunders, American baseball player
  • John Saunders (journalist), Canadian journalist
  • John Cunningham Saunders, British surgeon
  • Joseph Saunders, Visa Inc. CEO
  • Kate Saunders, British journalist
  • Laurence Saunders, British preacher of the sixteenth century
  • Leslie Howard Saunders, Canadian mayor
  • Margaret Marshall Saunders, Canadian writer
  • Matthew Saunders, English footballer
  • Merl Saunders, American musician
  • Michael Saunders (disambiguation):
    • Michael Saunders (born 1986), Canadian baseball player
    • Michael Saunders (academic) (born 1944), American numerical analyst and computer scientist
    • Michael Saunders (economist), Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee member
    • Michael Graham Saunders (1920–1975), neurophysiologist
    • Mike Saunders (born 1952), rock critic and singer
    • Mike Saunders (Canadian football) (born 1969), former Canadian Football League running back
    • Mike Saunders (soccer) (born 1972), retired Jamaican soccer player
  • Neil Saunders (born 1983), English footballer
  • Nicholas Saunders (Vice-Chancellor) of the University of Newcastle
  • Nicholas Saunders (activist), British entrepreneur of the Alternative Culture and, later, Ecstasy advocate
  • Nicholas J. Saunders (b. 1953), British academic archaeologist and anthropologist
  • Nigella Saunders, Jamaican badminton player
  • Norman Saunders, American illustrator
  • Norman Saunders (politician), politician from the Turks and Caicos Islands
  • Oliver Saunders, jazz pianist
  • Owen Saunders, British scientist and engineer
  • Pamela Saunders, American model
  • Peter Saunders (disambiguation)
  • Philip Saunders (cricketer), Australian cricketer, playing mostly in England
  • Rachel Saunders, American beauty queen
  • Raymond Saunders (disambiguation):
    • Raymond Saunders (artist)
    • Raymond Saunders (clockmaker)
  • Rebecca Saunders, composer
  • Reg Saunders (1920–1990), Australian army officer
  • Richard Saunders (disambiguation)
  • Robert Saunders (disambiguation)
  • Romulus Mitchell Saunders, North Carolina politician
  • Ron Saunders, English football player and manager
  • Stephen Saunders (military attache), British military attache based in Greece
  • Thomas Harry Saunders, British paper-maker
  • Tobias Saunders, Deputy to the Rhode Island General Assembly
  • Tony Saunders, American baseball player
  • Turner Saunders, American Methodist preacher
  • William Saunders (botanist), American botanist
  • William Saunders (photographer), British photographer
  • William Wilson Saunders, British entomologist

Fictional characters with the surname Saunders include:

  • Campbell Saunders, in Degrassi
  • Daniel (Danny) Saunders, in Chaim Potok's The Chosen and The Promise
  • Finbarr Saunders, in Viz
  • Grace Saunders, in the Alone in the Dark series
  • Reb Isaac Saunders, in Chaim Potok's The Chosen and The Promise
  • Saunders, a fellow MI6 Agent in the James Bond film The Living Daylights
  • Speed Saunders, in DC Comics
  • Stephen Saunders (24 character), in 24
Saunders (Berkshire cricketer)

Saunders (first name and dates unknown) was an English cricketer from Berkshire who played during the 1750s and 1760s.

Saunders (imprint)

Saunders is an academic publisher based in the United States. It is currently an imprint of Elsevier.

Formerly independent, the W.B. Saunders company was acquired by CBS in 1968, who added it to their publishing division Holt, Rinehart & Winston. When CBS left the publishing field in 1986, it sold the academic publishing units to Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Harcourt was acquired by Reed Elsevier in 2001.

W.B. Saunders published the Kinsey Reports and Dorland's medical reference works. Elsevier still sells the latter under the Saunders imprint.

Usage examples of "saunders".

Saunders has somehow managed to develop a considerable literary reputation while writing stories that, for their off-the-wall ideas, comedy, and ultimately affecting conclusions, would not be out of place in a Terry Bisson collection.

It was a place on the beach between the towns of Cape Meares and Oceanside listed under the name East View, which was a Marvin Saunders company.

He read through the commission reappointing Alvin Saunders as Governor of the Territory of Nebraska, made a memorandum on it and signed it.

Observed on his way toward Saunders Road, crossing Varmin Way he tripped on the new curb.

Deputy Dave Saunders had an iron grip on the wheel and a determined set in his jaw as he drove his squad car through Abney, lights flashing, and veered onto Service Road 221.

The sauce Acceres, minced and dissolued in Sugar thrice sodden, Amylum, Saunders, Muske and Rose water.

Wingate people, she was constantly doing so with inappropriate comments about their supposed stem-cell therapy and even inappropriate questioning of the young, pregnant Bahamian women who worked at the clinic, which was an extremely sensitive issue with Paul Saunders.

HTSR-altered fibroblasts had been a replacement for one of the original ten eggs that Paul Saunders had supplied.

By the next morning, half the citizens of Marengo and the neighboring ranches knew that Lacey Saunders had a man living with her.

It was about the middle of February that a considerable squadron sailed from England for Cape Breton, under the command of admirals Saunders and Holmes, two gentlemen of worth and probity, who had on several occasions signalised their courage and conduct in the service of their country.

Saunders interested a few farmers at a meeting of the United States Pomological Society in St.

Chapter XXIX IN WHICH CERTAIN INCIDENTS ARE NARRATED WHICH ARE ONLY TO BE MET WITH ON AMERICAN RAILROADS The train pursued its course, that evening, without interruption, passing Fort Saunders, crossing Cheyne Pass, and reaching Evans Pass.

There were two numbers for Saunders: his number in New York and a Bridgehampton number.

He wanted Scott Joplin, Louis Chauvin, James Scott, Sam Patterson, Otis Saunders, Artie Mathews, Eubie Blake, Joe Jordan.

I hung around after I was through because the second patient, chap named Saunders, was telling a dirty story that was new to me.